Winner of the 2019 Audie Honor for Best Male Narrator

A “better thriller” (Oakland Press) about a man, a dog, and a terrifying threat that could only have come from the imagination of #1 New York Situations bestselling author Dean Koontz—nominated as you of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s THE FANTASTIC American Read.

On his thirty-sixth birthday, Travis Cornell hikes into the foothills of the Santa Ana Mountains. But his route is soon blocked by a bedraggled Golden Retriever who’ll let him move no further in to the dark woods.

That morning, Travis had been desperate to find some happiness in his lonely, seemingly cursed life. What he finds is a puppy of alarming intelligence that soon prospects him right into a relentless storm of mankind’s darkest creation…